The media thinks Kamala Harris is running the best campaign since Barack Obama.
But they’re overlooking one potentially fatal problem.
And a former CNN host warned that Kamala Harris made one bad mistake that could cost her.
Kamala Harris’ play-it-safe strategy could backfire
Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to run out the clock until Election Day.
Her handlers learned the lesson of her failed 2020 Presidential campaign and her time as Vice President.
Her gaffes and meandering word salads turned her into a national punchline before she replaced President Joe Biden.
Kamala’s campaign is a Hollywood production designed to hide who the candidate really is from voters.
She hasn’t held a single press conference since she entered the race and rarely takes questions from reporters on the campaign trail.
Kamala has only conducted one solo national TV interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle in the more than two months she’s been running.
Her campaign doesn’t want voters to see her speak so that their image of her is the political dynamo that the media created.
Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza warned that Kamala’s strategy of avoiding the press and not laying out an agenda could be her downfall.
“I think it might be a winning political strategy, but if we look back and Kamala Harris does lose this race to Donald Trump — and I think she could — I think we will look back and say they were too risk-averse,” Cillizza said.
Kamala’s campaign is trying to flip the script
Cillizza explained that Kamala’s campaign is betting that voters will pick her because she’s not former President Donald Trump.
“That the theory of the Harris campaign was, ‘All we have to do is . . . meet a low bar of credibility to be an alternative to Donald Trump,” Cillizza explained. “That people are not going to vote for that guy, and so it’s a binary choice. If they’re not going to vote for A, they got to vote for B, and Kamala Harris is B.’”
He noted that Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 Presidential campaign made a similar bet with voters.
“That may work. The only thing I will say is it does remind me a little bit of eight years ago,” Cillizza stated. “That was the working theory behind Hillary Clinton’s campaign: that people were not ultimately going to vote for Donald Trump, so even if they didn’t love Hillary Clinton, they weren’t going to vote for . . . Trump, and therefore, again, binary choice, you vote for the other person, which would have been Clinton.”
Cillizza pointed out that Clinton spent the end of the 2016 campaign playing it safe before her ultimate defeat.
“So, if Harris loses, I think we might look back and say she should have taken a few more risks,” Cillizza said. “She should have been a little more willing to put herself out there, even though that putting yourself out there does have risk because there’s opportunity in that.”
Kamala’s campaign doesn’t want to take risks because they know the more she’s out there, the more unpopular she becomes with the public.
Her first Presidential campaign imploded and she became the most unpopular Vice President in modern history because the more the public saw her, the more they disliked her.
This election, she’s hoping that a short campaign can mask her flaws just long enough to get over the finish line.
